A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Random House
Paperback
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
Egan’s bravura fifth book samples from different eras (the glory days of punk; a slick, socially networked future) and styles (sly satire, moving tragedy, even PowerPoint) to explore the interplay between music and the rough rhythms of life. —Vogue
Wildly ambitious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Music is both subject and metaphor as Egan explores the mutability of time, destiny, and individual accountability post-technology. —O, The Oprah Magazine
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, “A Visit from the Goon Squad” is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.
Random House
Paperback
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
Egan’s bravura fifth book samples from different eras (the glory days of punk; a slick, socially networked future) and styles (sly satire, moving tragedy, even PowerPoint) to explore the interplay between music and the rough rhythms of life. —Vogue
Wildly ambitious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Music is both subject and metaphor as Egan explores the mutability of time, destiny, and individual accountability post-technology. —O, The Oprah Magazine
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, “A Visit from the Goon Squad” is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.
Random House
Paperback
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist
Egan’s bravura fifth book samples from different eras (the glory days of punk; a slick, socially networked future) and styles (sly satire, moving tragedy, even PowerPoint) to explore the interplay between music and the rough rhythms of life. —Vogue
Wildly ambitious. . . . A tour de force. . . . Music is both subject and metaphor as Egan explores the mutability of time, destiny, and individual accountability post-technology. —O, The Oprah Magazine
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, “A Visit from the Goon Squad” is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.